xiv, 393 p. : 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 369-383) and index

Introduction: cultural trauma in Spain -- Part I. Setting the Scene: 1. War memories since 1936: political, moral, social -- 2. Democracy, civil war, and intimate violence in the 1930s -- Part II. Memories of War During the Franco Years: 3. Repression and remembrance: the victors' liturgy of memory -- 4. Repression and reproduction: social memory in the 1940s -- 5. Memory and politics: from Civil War to Cold War -- 6. Memory and migration: flight from the countryside during the 1950s -- 7. Commemorating Franco's peace: the 25th anniversary of the victory -- 8. Contesting Franco's peace: transformation from below in the 1960s -- 9. Transition and reconciliation: politics and the Church in the 1970s -- Part III. Memories of War after Franco: 10. Transition and consent: the presence of the past, 1975-80 -- 11. 'The level of our times': memory and modernisation, 1981-1996 -- 12. Collective identity and the ethics of memory, 1996-2007 -- Conclusion: the history of war memories in Spain -- Sources and bibliography

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